Photo by Michelle Helena Janssen

Best case scenario? There’s an afterlife, we’re in it, and you and I are going to live forever. Worst case scenario? It’s not that there’s nothing at all, but rather that there’s some other form of a hellscape us simple-minded humans have yet to ponder, unless of course you are Squid’s Ollie Judge. Of the UK experimental post-punk quintet’s “Undergrowth”, the latest preview from their forthcoming sophomore effort, O Monolith, the drummer and vocalist goes on to consider the the idea of animism, i.e. the idea that spirits can live in inanimate objects. Fueled in part by watching Twin Peaks and the infamous scenes where Josie Packard’s spirit goes into a doorknob, it’s only fitting that the spirit of the show’s Angelo Badalamenti-scored vibes peak through the cathedral of blunderbuss within the listen’s trudging skiffs and ensuing outburst from a stuck place. “This isn’t what I wanted / So many options to be disappointed.” Doom is relative, but then again, one could argue that being alive can render the same results, begging the question: Are we already dead?

Visualizer by: Louis Borlase

Squid’s O Monolith will be released June 9th on Warp Records.